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RedPoint’s platform takes care of the ETL and hygiene work, while Splice Machine provides the transactional processing on that data. “So many people have used Hadoop as a dumping ground and a ...
Apache Hadoop, the open source software framework at the heart of big data, is a batch computing engine.It is not well-suited to the online, interactive data processing required for truly real ...
DataTorrent made its primary product, DataTorrent RTS, generally available today. The product is built on top of Hadoop 2.0 and allows companies to process massive amounts of big data in real time ...
Infochimps, known for its data market, today announced a big data management tool called Infochimps Platform, a suite for managing Hadoop and other big data tools that can be hosted in the cloud or o ...
Doug Cutting, creator of the distributed computing platform Hadoop, on why the platform is in an almost unassailable position and what's in store for the platform. Hadoop: How it became big data's ...
In reality, the number of Big Data stalwarts is not that large and a majority of companies that are adopting Hadoop/Spark are doing so for reasons in addition to the volume of data. If one looks ...
A number of the largest big data vendors, including IBM, Hortonworks and Pivotal, have banded together to specify a unified base platform for the open source Hadoop data processing software.
Hadoop and MapReduce have long been mainstays of the big data movement, but some companies now need new and faster ways to extract business value from massive -- and constantly growing -- datasets.
There is a lot of pressure on open source to deliver a viable platform for the enterprise. As we learned at the recently concluded Hadoop Summit (#hadoopsummit), Hortonworks believes that Hadoop + YAR ...
In an extension of its two-year-old partnership with Microsoft, Hortonworks made available for download a beta of the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) for Windows on February 25. HDP was built with ...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has updated its Elastic Map Reduce platform with a new version of Hadoop and updated support for its data analytics ecosystem. Elastic Map Reduce is AWS platform for ...